You’re going to love this - trust me

First, let me say that THIS is the new standard that mods and addons should be compared to. I have never seen anything this professional looking outside of a commercially made and distributed producted I’ve purchased in stores - and some of those not even this polished looking.

This baby comes in two flavours - for the oldschool TF dog, like myself, you get the traditional PAK format. Great for those of us who prefer to get our hands dirty, and the control freaks. ^_^

Second, there is a Installable version. If you’re the sort of person who’s NOT uber-technical, this *IS* for you. it installs, using an installshield- type application, and if you don’t like it, it will automagically uninstall with a few clicks. SWEET!

Next, this thing is pure subwoofer candy! If you don’t have one already, go buy one NOW! I mean, RIGHT now! Without one, you’ll miss a lot of the inherent goodness of this pack. Let me tell, with this running, if you’re in the middle of a hot firefight, it does a damn good job of simulating the chaos of war. Talk about getting pumped up and your adrenaline going!

The sounds for the various weapons have been enhanced, and the only beef I have, is the silenced sniper rifle sound. Anyone who’s taken SERIOUS sniper training will tell you a real sniper will NOT put a silencer on their weapon. It lowers muzzle velocity, which drastically reduces accuracy. In fact, silencers only work well with lower-velocity ammunition. But that is strictly just a personal judgement/preference on my part that I do dislike that one sound. Otherwise, the sounds are a pure joy to listen to, especially the detpack - the debris falls like forever. ^_^

It has 3 "modules", for lack of better description. the "base" sounds, the grenade timer (speak-type), and the Sentry addon. The base sounds are your normal weapon and ambiant sound substitutions, to include neat "Star Trek transporter" sounds for players respawning and entering/leaving the server - a really fun touch. The grenade timer is nice, no config work is required, but if you already have on, and you install this, you will get a double timer - which threw me off for the first game. Then I went and disabled my beep timer I was using, and stayed with this speak timer. I’m still learning the proper timing with it, but I’ve grown to like THIS timer more, now.

The sentry sounds merit some discussion, because Janson, the developer of this addon, was concerned about it. It makes the sentry idle and locking sounds a bit longer and more easily distinguishable. He was worried that this might be viewed as a "cheat". Let me asure you, being someone who has absolutely ZERO tolerance for cheaters, it does not. It does help make them a wee bit more detectable, but lets face it - with the nuclear MIRV grenade, and the medic’s SNG - Sguns really don’t live that long anyhow. And these sounds make them a LOT more meaner-sounding, too. ^_^

In summary, besides it’s hefty download size (4.9mb for the installer version, 3.5mb for the pak), I can’t recommend this strongly enough. It adds spirit to TFC, without making it the frantic sound mess that MegaTF was for TF1(IMHO). Install this thing, crank up that subwoofer, and go forth to do onto others...

To quote Joe Bob Briggs: Here’s the report card. Grenade-Fu. SubWoofer-Fu. as many buckets of gibs as your sick, demented little hearts can handle. Star Trek Transporter-Fu (no 7of 9, sorry boys). The meanest sounding Sentry Guns this side of the Pecos. Explosions that sound so real, you’ll be ducking for cover in the safety of your own homes. Totentanz sez "check it".